Heppler, Kramer spark Hawks past Nitros 2-1 to stay alive in Kootenay Conference Playoff
The Beaver Valley Nitehawks live to play again. Dylan Heppler had two points and Tallon Kramer stopped 26 shots to spark the Murdoch Division Champs to a 2-1 victory over the Kimberley Dynamiters in Kootenay International Junior Hockey League Kootenay Conference playoff action Saturday night in Fruitvale. Kimberley leads the...
Saints blast Spartans to move within a win of fourth BCIHL title
The British Columbia Intercollegiate Hockey League’s (BCIHL) championship best-of-three final opened Friday night at the Castlegar & District Recreation Complex with a 5-1 Selkirk College Saints victory over the Trinity Western University Spartans. Game two of the series goes Saturday at 7 p.m. tonight in Castlegar at the...
Broadband is Here Now.
Businesses in downtown Rossland can now reap the benefits of high-speed Internet with up to 100 mbps symmetrical service. The downtown area is now connected to the fibre optic network of the Columbia Basin Broadband Corporation (CBBC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Columbia Basin Trust (the Trust). “We’re proud to be celebrating...
RDCK board adopts Financial Plan
The Regional District of Central Kootenay adopted its 2016-2020 Financial Plan today at its March board meeting Thursday in Nelson. Chief Administrative Officer Stuart Horn said the new Plan will have a minor impact on taxpayers. “The Directors were very cognizant of the tax impacts to residents throughout the budget process,” said Horn in a […]
OUT OF LEFT FIELD: Now's a time to come together
There was a movie that came out in 1993 called Six Degrees of Separation. (It later spawned a game called Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon). The basic premise was, you’re never more than six relationships away from any other human being. Let’s use the Kevin Bacon example. The game required that you go through your […]
ATTENTION YOUTH FILM-MAKERS!
The Rossland Council for Arts and Culture (RCAC) and the Rossland Youth Action Network (YAN) are presenting a series of film-making workshops for youth. For the past nine years RCAC has been providing youth film programming, hosting workshops and presenting the West Kootenay U19 Film Festival each spring. “This year, in...
Financial Plan for 2016 to 2020: The City Wants Your Responses
Rossland is inviting taxpayers to a Public Input Session on April 13, at the Ross Thompson Ballroom at the Prestige Mountain Resort, to tell the City what we all think of the proposed Financial Plan. If readers have been following the "Council Matters" reports, they will already have that event in mind; now, the City asks...
Op/Ed: Why We Can't Take Clean Water For Granted
Earth’s oceans, lakes, rivers and streams are its circulatory system, providing life’s essentials for people, animals and ecosystems. Canada has one-fifth of the world’s freshwater, a quarter of its remaining wetlands and its longest coastline. With this abundance, it’s easy to take water for granted. Many of our daily...
Canada and the USA
Stephen Harper, Donald Trump, and Angry Democracies “It’s an angry world but no doubt everything will go as planned.” -- Neil Young, Angry World, from Le Noise The unavoidable comparison: Canada observes the USA When I was in secondary school and my young...
COLUMN: Alkaline is Where it's At: Part 2
Measuring your pH is simple. Take any 4 days and test every urination after the first urination in the morning with a indicator paper (called pH paper), which show the pH values between 4.0-7.5. (These you can buy at your friendly compounding pharmacy or spa store). If the value shows repeatedly below pH 7.0...
